A CITY charity is urging people to spend a night in a cardboard box to raise cash for a homeless charity.

The 2012 Big Sleep Out will be staged at the Birmingham City Mission in Bordesley on Friday, February 24. BCM chief executive Wesley Erpen said: “This will be the third year running for the Big Sleep Out which over the past two years has raised more than £12,000.” It will be in the gated car park of BCM headquarters from 8pm to 6am.